Margaret+Muscia

On August 28, 1926, 44-year-old Margaret Muscia died from a criminal abortion performed that day in Chicago.

Mrs. Minnie Miller, alias Molinaro, was arrested on July 10 for Margaret's death. Minnie's profession is not given. On November 15, she was indicted for felony murder by a grand jury.

The Cook County Death Index indicates that Margaret was a homemaker, wife of Jack Muscia. She was an Italian immigrant.

Keep in mind that things that things we take for granted, like antibiotics and blood banks, were still in the future. For more about abortion in this era, see [|Abortion in the 1920s]. For more on pre-legalization abortion, see [|The Bad Old Days of Abortion] Source:


 * [|Homicide in Chicago Interactive]

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